Szabó

Seven years after his mother, Magda, died, Szabó, an ethnic Hungarian, finds himself locked in a legal battle over the property she left him and his brother, property she won back from the Romanian state in the early 2000s decades after it was stripped from her father in the immediate aftermath of World War Two.

Hungary's government on Monday launched Prime Minister Viktor Orban's eighth 'national consultation', which critics describe as a tool to create the illusion of popular consent for his controversial policies.

National consultations look like opinion polls, are sent to every household, and usually contain a list of questions.